By starting your own home-based business selling natural health care products from the comfort and convenience of your own home, you can not only eliminate the stress and hassle of commuting, punching time clocks and dealing with employers’ power trips, you’ll finally start making the kind of income you deserve while providing a valuable product to those who need them. If you have nothing more than a phone and a pad of paper, you can get started selling beauty products right away. With the increased awareness of harmful chemical substances in so many everyday products, the market for selling natural health care products has never been better!

2) Setting your own hours, allowing you to give your children the care they deserve instead of entrusting them to strangers

3) Having complete control over the amount of money you make

A home based business selling beauty products can help to make this happen.

The fact is, best-selling natural health care products will always be in demand, regardless of the economy. Partially because health care in the U.S. is priced out of reach for so many, people are increasingly taking personal responsibility for their own health – and as competition in the job market intensifies, people will be looking for every edge in those job interviews, meaning that the demand for the top-selling beauty products will only go up. When you work at home selling beauty products, you’re actually helping these people to get the advantage they need!

You’ve Been There

You may be one of those who has been burned by “work-at-home” pyramid schemes before. In fact, such “pyramid schemes,” while not illegal, are certainly unethical and should be avoided at all costs.

The good news is that there are many alternative business models when it comes to selling cosmetics or anything else. Direct sales and affiliate programs are far better for those who work at home selling cosmetics.

If you already have a website that gets a fair amount of traffic, an affiliate program is an excellent way to start a home based business selling beauty products. You simply place a banner ad on your site advertising the product, and receive a certain amount for each “click-through” that results in a sale. This way, you can actually make money in your sleep.

The other model, direct sales, is more practical for most people – and if you have a prominent reputation in your community, you’re already ahead of the game, because with this business model, you’re selling cosmetics via word-of-mouth. This means you spend little or nothing on advertising.

Either way, if you plan to start selling natural health care products, it is important that you believe in the products you’re selling. Beauty products are personal, and it is highly recommended that you try every one that you plan to market to others. That way, selling natural health care products will be a breeze!

If you are the creative type that likes to craft and make handmade products to sell, the crafting aspect is often only the tip of the iceberg. Deciding what to make, whom to sell to and the logistics of getting the finished product to the consumer might very well overwhelm you if the entire process is not well planned. In fact the simplest plans to set up your very own handmade product business might turn into a nightmare for the unprepared. Thankfully there are many ways to cut out unnecessary stress and make life easier getting your handcrafted products out there.

In recent years, there’s been a big growth in the handmade beauty products and home fragrance sector. Some of the most popular beauty crafting niches for work from home businesses is handmade perfumes, handmade soap, scented candles and mineral cosmetics.

Many of these home based workers and crafters are doing brisk business making high quality, handcrafted goods for an ever increasing customer base. However, even the best handmade beauty products can go unnoticed in the market place if the right marketing plans are put into place.

Following are a few pointers that should help you.

Market Research To Find Out Your Target customers

It is very important to first establish if there is a demand for your products and to know who your buyers would be before making your stock. The market research will also show you what your competitors are selling and what items are popular with customers. By doing this you find out exactly what to make and minimize wastage.

A good example is this, let’s say you love the smell of licorice and use that fragrance note when making perfumes for your own use, because you love the scent doesn’t mean your customers will. Therefore, it’s no use spending a lot of money on supplies to make a product that no one wants to buy.

Create A Website For Your Products

An online store is one of the best avenues to sell your products. You can set up one up for free or next to nothing using one of the many free online shop providers and use Paypal to collect payments. Once this is done you, you can use the next two marketing tips to promote your website and products some more.

How To Promote Your Product On Other People’s Blogs

You can contact beauty and handmade product bloggers and ask them to review your goods on their site. You would need to send them a sample of the items and request that the do a write up or video about their opinion of it to their audience and subscribers.

How To Promote Your Product On Forums

Online forums and message boards can be a great place to get people talking about your products and find new customers. Forums are often very popular platforms where product recommendations and reviews are discussed. By joining forums relevant to your craft and business and getting active in discussions you can generate a lot of exposure.

In addition, most forums will allow you to use your business web address as your signature when posting on threads, this translates into more opportunities for people to click through to your website and see your products that for sale.

Amongst
the billions of dollars spent on products that proclaim they are alone
the ‘fountain of youth’, very few actually work! And there are more
every day that are coming to market! Save your hard earned bucks. Don’t
get suckered by slick ads and quick salesmen in health food stores.
But, if you follow these 10 Rules to good health, you’ll save huge cash
(cash you can spend on vacation instead of the health food store).

1.
There are no short cuts. If you gained too much weight over a year,
it’s going to take time to take it back off. Figure on 5 pounds a month.
Just cut back on junk and fatty foods. No deep fried or battered in any
form. No chips, no soda, no candy , no cookies.

2. If you feel
sick, and it’s not nutritional, just go to the doctor, it might actually
be a virus. Don’t always self-diagnose and spend more dollars on junk
with huge claims to magical health.

3. Eat normal food that
actually looks like how it came. If you want potatoes, don’t buy ’em in a
box, buy the raw potatoe and steam them. Eat an apple a day, maybe a
banana and some carrots. Maybe a pear. The fiber in fruits and
vegetables is incredibly important to keep the impurities from
re-entering your blood stream via the large intestine.

4. Calories count. Eating more than you can burn up makes you fatter. That’s all there is to it.

5.
Don’t spend money on a gym membership if you’re not going to be
disciplined enough to use it. Follow the Jack Lalane rule: your body
weight with chin-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, bike riding etc, is more than
enough if you actually do it. “Power 90 Fitness” teaches some very good
techniques. It’s pretty complete compared to other programs.

6.
Exercise six days, take one day off. Cycle the exercises you do, and
don’t do the same one on 2 days in a row. Give your body one day of rest
between exerise patterns.

7. All the water you can drink, but sip
it all day. Just do not drink soda or junk sugary juices. They’ll make
ya’ tired and you’ll be looking for another suger fix to keep you awake.
And no, you don’t need to drink designer water. Water is water. In
fact, some of the so-called designer waters are actually out of their
tap! Did you know that? Check out the label. And many times, tap water
is safer with less bacteria than designer bottled water.

8.
Vitamins: Don’t buy the “One-a-day” or “Centrum” garbage type brands.
I’ve heard them called “bedpan bullets” because after they don’t work,
and you’re now in the hospital sick, they sound like a bullet when you
evacuate them in the bedpan. Buy natural vitamins. A good inexpensive
B-complex Sublingual, a decent Multi-vitamin, a multi-mineral. Vitamin C
is fantastic. At least 1000mg a day. It’s cheap everywhere. For older
women, “Natural Progesterone creme” (note the word “NATURAL” – very
important. Not synthetic). For older men, natural testosterone creme and
saw palmetto. Most everything else you can get from good, fresh food.
Try a salad a day with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

9. Sleep!
Go to bed the same time, no later than maybe 11:00 pm. Get at least 7 or
8 hours a night of sleep. The body does have sleep cycles where the
melatonin levels increase, and too late makes you miss that all
important REM sleep. Now, if you can’t sleep, I would recommend “slow
release melatonin”. It’s considered one of the anti-aging hormones, and
will take that stress right out of your life. By the way, “Saint John’s
Wort” is a great stress reducer as well, and has been proven in studies
to be more effective as an anti-psychotic than prozac and similar type
drugs. “Saint John’s Wort” is mild and simply an herb. Most of these
products take time to work. They aren’t like drugs, they’re natural and
so they might take a week or two for you to start feeling the
difference. But, they do work. And they’re cheaper than doctor visits.

10. Now for the cool stuff that fixes your body without the surgery.

OK, ready? Here’s a list of some great products.

~
Injectable Vitamins: B-Complex, C, D, A, E, calcium, etc. All great,
and more effective by 300% to 400% than vitamins swallowed. The
B-Complex might even give you an energy buzz at first. B-Complex is one
of the very best de-stress vitamin groups.

~ A product called
“Procaine H3”, considered one of the best anti-aging products on the
market today. Find them at Gerovital.com, as well as all the injectable
vitamins.

~ Chelation therapy to completely eradicate cholesterol
and to increase circulation and even heavy metal overload. If you have
fibromyalgia, this might be your answer. Vitamin C IV is also very
effective at returning amazing health to your entire body. Try it, you
would definitely not believe it works that well. And these are both very
cheap natural therapies. I suggest checking out ant-aging doctor, Dr.
Gary Gordon’s website: gordonresearch.com, for some very good
information, WEBSearch also for Dr. Jullian Whitaker, for a fantastic
newletter called “Health and Healing” (only $50 a year), and Dr. Helen
Pensanti in Seattle for natural hormone therapy, for progesterone creme
and some great and fair priced products.

~ And this last product
is the very best of them all! It’s no longer in that inexpensive
category anymore here, but I had to include it because you might holler
at me later when you found out about it on your own. Now there is a
chance that you might feel ten or twenty years younger, so be careful
and don’t start acting all silly if you do start taking it, alright.
Pretty much every famous anti-aging doctor has mentioned that this
product is the only proven true age-reversing nutrient. Can you guess
what it is? Ok, I’ll tell you…. but first, this product, if you use
it in even very small amounts, costing only $50 a month, will increase
your stamina, and turn your complexion back to a pink hue again, even
strangle a couple of wrinkles here and there to boot.

It is
injectable, and this is the only way to take it, sorry. If you see a 60
year old movie star, or a 40 year old body-builder, and they look 20
years younger, I can almost guarantee you that after their face lift the
doctor gave them this product to heal incredibly fast, and then to keep
using small amounts the rest of their life. They might even die still
lookin’ good. “Human Growth Hormone”. It was originally developed by
Eli Lilly in USA for growth problems in children. But soon after it was
discovered that it also worked to reverse the aging process. Yep. that’s
right! Skin gets thicker, muscles redevelop, fat decreases, organs grow
back to more original sizes. Eyesight improves. And on and on. It’s a
natural nutrient found in young people, but it decreases in age and with
stress and bad diet and no exercise. Now the product names are varied,
but this 192 amino acid base is FDA approved in these names only: Eli
Lilly named theirs “Humatrope”, Serono named theirs “Saizen” (my
favorite), and “Genotropin”.

OK, I’m done with the whole list. That’s it. There are other countries trying to compete with these American based hGH companies, but they are not FDA approved and not as good a product. There are literally hundreds of sites that proclaim they have the best hGh (human growth hormone) product. But only the USA has the best, and the only real hgh is the injectable kind. Check out for more info on that.